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Global Governance and Sustainable Development in the Middle East

This session aims to explore issues of governance and sustainability in the Middle East. Three issues will be dealt with: Political, economic and environmental. The first presentation will gravitate around the issues of governance and pose questions in relation to the sustainability of the political structures found in the region and their ability to interact with the global governance system. The second presentation aims to explore the economic foundation of the various states in the region (oil, gas, remittances) and will focus on whether or not this foundation is sustainable in the long run. The third presentation will focus on the environmental situation and will ask what problems the region currently are facing, and which initiatives the various governments take to mitigate those problems.

Chair:

Martin Hvidt
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies
University of Southern Denmark

Speakers:

Gerd Nonneman
Professor of International Relations & Middle East Politics
Al-Qasimi Professor of Arab Gulf Studies
Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS)
University of Exeter
United Kingdom

Waleed Khalil Ibrahim Jassim Zubari
Professor for Technological Studies Affairs
Vice-Dean, College of Graduate Studies
Arabian Gulf University
Bahrain

Organizer:

Martin Hvidt
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55
DK-5230 Odense M.

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